Friday, January 15, 1999

OOPS! I didn't successfully upload the "Corners, Lighting and Details" texture tutorial on Wednesday, but you should be able to read it now.

	Wednesday, January 13, 1999

My Free Textures have been included in ApocX's Texture Pak 3 (Half Life format) at Texture Central.

I've also written a texture tutorial called "Corners, Lighting and Details". Any feedback about my tutorials is appreciated and might help me make improvements to these tutorials and future tutorials. In this tutorial I've tried to describe techniques you can use for any paint program and any texture instead of showing how to make a complete texture from scratch like many tutorials.

There is a new interview with Jorrit Tyberghein - creator of the Crystal Space free 3D game engine - at flipCode outpost. A new beta version of Crystal Space has been released - version 0.11 release 46.

Speaking of free software, the GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Tool - is now available as a native Win32 application. This means it should run on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT, and unlike some of the Win32 ports of the GIMP from last year, this version doesn't require an X server. Check out tml's Native Win32 GIMP page.

The GIMP is an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop or JASC's Paint Shop Pro. Although the GIMP is free, it is powerful and comparable in features to these commercial applications. This is probably because the GIMP source code is free, protected by the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows any GIMP user to make improvements to the program. Personally, I've noticed that the GIMP has a lot of useful features that Paint Shop Pro doesn't.

Errata: The link to the Wally texture tool on my links page was broken. This link should work.

	Saturday, January 9, 1999

I uploaded these Free Textures last year, but forgot to link to them from my other pages. All of these are Quake palette textures so far.

	Thursday, January 7, 1999

Crystal Space version 0.11 beta release 45 is out. This version is very different from the last, and probably won't work as-is on most operating systems. If you want to help porting CS to different operating systems, this could be a good version to get. I have release 43 almost running in DOS compiled with DJGPP, but the keyboard controls are not working.

	Tuesday, January 5, 1999

Mapes has fixed several of the bugs in the Squawk Quake total conversion (with some help from Zancrus). Try Squawk Quake version 3.

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